ISP Voneus Brings Faster Wireless Broadband to Dalton Piercy

Residents in the rural Hartlepool borough village of Dalton Piercy (County Durham), which is home to almost 300 people, can now access faster broadband speeds of up to 45Mbps after UK ISP Voneus deployed a new Fixed Wireless Access (FWA) network. Previously, some locals often struggled to get fixed line speeds of above 1Mbps.

The provider, supported by investment from Macquarie Capital, currently holds a “near term” target to cover 100,000 homes in rural areas to their new full fibre network (here). But they do still deploy some FWA services, such as in locations where the economics of doing FTTP would be harder to achieve, although trying to get even basic package and price details out of their website remains frustratingly difficult.

According to the press release, Openreach had no plans to upgrade the local connections, and another provider is claimed to have promised to bring fibre connections to the area but “reneged on the project” (we know a number of AltNets are targeting Hartlepool itself, but we haven’t yet seen any firm plans for Dalton Piercy – until now).

Zoe Day, Head of community engagement at Voneus, said: “We are thrilled that Kylie [see video below] and the rest of Dalton Piercy are now live with superfast broadband and we look forward to bringing more villages and towns in County Durham up to speed in the near future.”